MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Well, I had an exciting last couple weeks.

> Mexico.
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> Cops and prosecutors get murdered here on a regular basis. We don't have a jury-based
> trial system, but considering they kill anyone involved...

I know what you're saying about Mexico is true.

As far as this situation, I'm a pretty careful (paranoid?) person myself, but during this trial, during breaks, the jury and the defendant would stand around outside the same doorway smoking... we'd ride up and down the elevator with him, his family, his visitors regularly... if they wanted to know who any of us are they know. I did at one point say to the judge's secretary that isn't it strange some members of the jury and the defendant are both smoking outside the same door together, and her reply to me was "They aren't talking about the case are they?" And since no one was talking about it, they were cool with that.

At one point we were released for the day, and as we all went out, so too was his wife and visitors... and I, being the careful one, hung back until they drove away, but the other members of the jury walked out to their respective cars with them and drove away simultaneously with them. They had plenty of opportunity to identify us, our cars, where we go, mess with any one of us during the whole process, and never did.

I guess here in the States, while we have crime of course, we don't have the level of corruption and trial interferance you have there.